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• Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts.

  Karl Gutzkow

  Magnet

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• When it appears that there is no choice, some form of illusion is operating.

  Deepak Chopra

  Choices, Form

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• Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Existentialism, Moments

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

  Aldous Huxley

  Knowledge, Emotional, Discovery

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• Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue that can be the wing of a bug or a thought. It makes our invisible visible.

  Squeak Carnwath

  Believe, Reality, Blue

  Squeak Carnwath, John Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.) (1994). “Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery”

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• Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture.
  Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.

  Terence McKenna

  Responsibility, Thinking, Culture

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• Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.

  Sai Baba

  Fake People, World, Path

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• All problems are illusions of the mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Meditation, Mind, Problem

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.41, New World Library

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• No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

  Larry McMurtry

  Money, Car, Self Improvement

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Some Can Whistle”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration.

  Georges Braque

  Simple, Mind, Facts

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• A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Men, Suffering

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.185, Princeton University Press

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• Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ideas, Hallucinations, Nothingness

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• What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Beautiful, Teaching, Personality

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Good And Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.194, e-artnow

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• The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Men, Action

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1466, Delphi Classics

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• In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Honesty, Years, Youth

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• If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Teaching, Intellectual, Intelligence

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• Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Age, Hours

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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• The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

  Arthur Miller

  Real, Order, Intellectual

  "Federalism and the French Canadians". Book by Pierre Trudeau (p. 175), 1968.

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• Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Inspirational, Reality, Appetite For Life

  Harry Allen Overstreet (1931). “The Enduring Quest: A Search for a Philosophy of Life”

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• A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

  Saul Bellow

  Inspirational, Freedom, Fear

  Saul Bellow (2016). “To Jerusalem and Back”, p.100, Odyssey Editions

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• We wake from one dream into another dream.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Flakes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

  Ludwig Borne

  Life, Truth, Sunset

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• In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

  Marianne Williamson

  Power, World, Slave

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

  Thomas Moore

  Love, Marriage, Heartbreak

  "Did You Know?/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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